Election 2009

As we know, after the filing-deadline shenanigans in the HCC Trustee District 8 race, brother-in-law candidate Arturo Aguilar said he was withdrawing from the ballot. As I noted at the time, that meant there were no other candidates who had filed before the deadline for that office. The question is what happens in that race? […]
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As noted last week, Peter Brown will be the first Mayoral candidate to start airing TV ads, which are set to begin running this week. A preview of the first ad, which doesn’t appear to be embeddable yet, can be seen here. It’s basically an intro spot, and it hits all the high points of […]
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We’ve certainly got a fascinating Mayor’s race going on this year, with three viable candidates that can all plausibly claim a path to victory, but it seems to me that there’s a lot of interesting stuff happening in the At Large races as well. Marc Campos writes about a development that could affect one of […]
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Yes! One more report on campaign fundraising, this time for HISD Trustees. These reports are online, but I didn’t know where to look for them. Fortunately, School Zone did, and that’s good because the July reports are still in paper form. Here’s what we’ve got: District I – Natasha Kamrani (has not announced whether she’s […]
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Since I brought up the subject of Houston city candidates on Twitter last week, I figured I’d put together as complete a list of such candidates’ Twitter feeds as I could, since I’d already gotten such a head start on it. Before I present that list, I just want to add as a public service […]
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Most of the electoral action this fall will be for City of Houston races, but there are also five HISD Trustee seats on the ballot, one of which will be open. School Zone reports on the two races that will be the highest profile. District I: Natasha Kamrani, who is wrapping up her first term, […]
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I did a long post on campaign finance reports from city candidates last night. This is an update to that. You can look for candidates’ reports yourself here. – Ronald Green’s numbers for City Controller are now in – my spreadsheet has been updated to reflect that. He took in $48,515 and has $32,700 on […]
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We may be just two days past July 4, but it’s time to focus on the upcoming November elections. In particular, that means it’s time to start doing interviews with candidates for city offices. I’ve got a few lined up for this week, and will start publishing them next week. I realize it’s four months […]
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